I'm right leftist... Yup, (as a side note testimonial to the principle of uncertainty my favorite expression is \ldots) quite a mouthful. But what does it mean? you may ask, if it means anything at all. Well, word Anarchy, as a denotation, has been abused to the point of confusing even those who by their own actions supported it with a disservice of violence in the name of idea, thus giving credence to those who twisted its meaning to encompass chaos, destruction and (as a last resort) irrational utopianism of reactionary intellectuals or unwashed masses. This reversal of vocabulary may be a proof of idea's validity as (to my mind) at its core anarchism addresses the paradox of life with which every prudent teen is struggling. In its most shallow Greek superficiality Anarchy denounces any hierarchy. In a political science this could mean a government as most dictionary definitions, used to trivialize Anarchy, cite or any limitation on the freedom as the deal might be considered in general terms of a philosophical disclosure. A question arises whether an agreed upon, after centuries of struggles, flagship model of the rights to freedom of choice carries a meaningful resolution. If a simple transposition into a "choice of freedom" defies a static logic which the hierarchy, order, law, rule presupposes, then it has to be inquired whether the freedom is less than the power to discern and actively eliminate alternatives. Of course, such flagrant plays on words can be easily reduced to a megalomaniac solipsism or any voluntary axiomatic system of sectarian materialism, idealism or an other ism. And just as well, as all such reduction would merely describe is a said model (hierarchy of ideas) within which a total lack of hierarchy simply doesn't fit or is not applicable. Science is a great toolbox with which we are better armed to deal with an external reality but even at its present heights of achievement (it may be said it builds the ultimate hierarchy of ideas about reality, which by definition must be best applicable in whole to the whole of reality and therefore always returns best, realizable results at a given point in time) doesn't place us at the end of a journey. Anarchism does not refute science. Just the opposite: it uses its methods to combat other scientific misconceptions, engaging in a constructive dialogue with individuals locked in classic struggles. In truth, I don't propose anything radical. Libertarian Socialism, as I would call the most agreeable with myself version of geo-world out-look, can be in shortest described as a middle ground. Thence the pun before \ldots, as monopolies of meanings both on the right liberal side and the left socialist diluted a compromise into a razor blade of a voting sinusoid mega-pendulum. I, as a unique person, would rather like to be a member of a union - more like mildly boiling water than, locked in diamond, carbon atoms; and I certainly don't appreciate some unenlightened members of my society imagining as natural either that a choice of one entails the choice of many or the subordination of many choices by way of one mechanical decision. In a feeble hope that this paragraph carried any information let me end with a simple statement: you may be surprised, as was I, that Anarchism can very adequately voice some of your thoughts and describe feelings. For those guilty of sins of a present ignorance or an unabated curiosity I embed
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